The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-20

no place for you. We've got to shoot poor
Tennessee and the balance OF them
chaps"
! halted, horror struck, and was
hustled and pushed, and cayalrymnn
nearly rode over me, and when came out
of my trance there was a column of dust
going up the street ahead of me and
dashinr here and there of sun FURNISHED
sabres; and above all the dub, dub of the
drums. that seemed with the sun 10 beat
into my pulsing brain. Since have
grown older | have frequently thought
that there il a devil or some evil spirit
that enters into a man or child and
frequently controls him even against his
own will, and | base my reason for such u
thought upon my conduct on that occa'
sion, for followed 0s though drawn by n
magnet, while my better self kept repeat
inc the words OF Michigan" Go
home to your mother sonny" but
my devil had charge of me and
directed me rs an engineer would Il loco
motive and as in a dream | followed on,
Oh, past Lafayette park and out into II
| broad common, well knowing what ! was
going to see and dreading TO see il, on, UNI
| ill We were lost in Il dense crowd of human
| beings where was almost sullcCatcd, and
il seems now TO me that my devil must
have taken good care of me, otherwise,
mite MS | was, l would have been tram
Piled to death under the feet OF the mob,
who seemed to sway hither and thithcr,
| crnng their necks and straining their
mad morbid curiosity to see WHAT |
knew only too Well, and my devil still
guided me until he had placed me between
! the knees Of an infantry soldier and
there he left me, and when | came back TO
my proper self WAS between two walls OF
living blue, knceling on the dusty COM
mon, and looking into
A LARGE, HOLLOW SQUARE,
whose walls, save at one end, were fenced
with troops, and that end was the grassy
glacis OF a fort, iru~, which started up u
tall flagstaff and high up was the sIars
and stripes, moving lazily against bur
nishcd blue sky.
Michigan" too, died in hospital and
his little brood must have grown weary
with their looking and his widow wcpt hor
eyes out over that sick heart, grown weary
with hope deferred.
one allcrnoon--.whcwl it WIS piping hot
the hot, white glaze OF the sun seemed
TO wilt up vegetation; not breath ol alr,
but only that furnace glow from the brick
pavcmrnts, white with tine powdered limy
dust from the macadumiLed streets.
! was lettering home from school, seek
ing the shady side of Chouicau avenue
and anxious TO get home to see "lcnncs
see" and Michigan, butthe heat was IN
tOlcriblc aud seemed To roast me, and my
books in their strapscemcd to weigh ton
! | wondered where nil the bOys were, and /
the sutlcr at the barracks had any lemon
adc on ice.
My spcculations were broken into b,
hearing strange sound, and the few pc
dcstrians upon the avenue halted an,
looked baCk as n rlbblc aud crowd hurS
! ont OF Eighth street and swaycd and tum
BLEED and then headed up towards me
! Rub-dub-dub, dub, dubl "Why, thos
, drums can, he shared up, was my tirs
thought. IL wonder what's the matter!
And thCn right wheel out OF Eighth stree
. and up ChoutCnu avenue with glittCrin
: sabrcs drawn came platoon of cayalr,
I and next the swinging company front ,
: dUsl;y blue like AN ocean wave advance
, with steady time crrsicd with foam {
CHANGING bayonc,s.
More and more dill I wonder, not at 81,
ing the troops, for that WIS an cycryuu
: sight and scarcely worth turning the hca
, Tor, but why were those
DRUMS NurFLED
: and what WIS the meaning Of that crow
y oi people who marched on either ilanl
j. blocking mp The sidewalks, keeping tim,
u ~ could tell by their weaving feet nu
; the hollow thud that came up the ho
= dusty nypuuc2 And then one after uuut